You might think that the rest of the story focuses on Morwenna’s possibly sinister disappearance from their lives, and Jen’s efforts to find her, but you’d be wrong. Jen, meanwhile, receives panicky calls from her brother – they need to find their free-spirited mother Morwenna before their estranged father can sell the family home. However, their fledgling romance is seemingly scuppered by the arrival of his boss, who wants to send him off on a new mission. What’s more, the journey brings her back into contact with Nick, an undercover cop she can’t get out of her mind. This time, Jen is still haunted by her experiences, but a trip to Spain to climb various cliff faces may help ease her mind. Jen is also at the centre of Jesmond’s follow-up, Cut Adrift, which, despite alluding in places to its predecessor, can be read as a standalone novel. However, she was forced to utilise her skills once again after awakening to find herself drugged and dangling from a lighthouse near her family home in Cornwall, leading her to deal with troubled memories from her past. Her first novel, On the Edge, introduced readers to Jen Shaw, a once obsessed free-climber who gave it all up when someone close to her got hurt. Thankfully there are people out there trying to deliver a twist on the genre, and Jane Jesmond is one of them. In an over-saturated market, finding a new voice with something compelling to say in the crime writing field can be difficult.
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